Over a 110 participants, which, which you've impressive. It's really great to see all of you today. Thank you for joining us on this virtual conference on COVID-19 research. The conference today is organized by the Berkeley Research Council in collaboration with the health thought leadership network and the Center for Integration of Science and Industry. So this past year has been challenging for all of us. And unfortunately, the pandemic did not really skip universities and academic community. However, I have been inspired to see that despite the challenges of the pandemic, Bentley faculty have used their time as an opportunity to increase our knowledge and make a positive impact for research. So when we initially envisioned the conference back in Nepal and send the call for papers, we will all just very encouraged to see how many of our colleagues have been busy working on research that is related to the pandemic. Today, you will get a chance to hear from you of this research teams. To me more than anything, this demonstrate the commitment of Berkeley faculty to knowledge creation and to contribute to research that actually makes a difference. As you will hear today, Berkeley researchers, along with collaborators from many other academic institutions, have been working on a variety of pandemic related topics, including topics such as the physical and mental health concerns, the economic impact of the pandemic. Working from home, Telehealth, vaccine hesitancy and many other important topics. The conference highlights not only the depth of research, but also the breadth of research conducted by mentally faculty. At the Research Council. We have been working over the past 18 month on an effort to emphasize and advance the importance of research that goes beyond academia. The presentation you will hear today demonstrate the Berkeley faculty conduct legal, high-quality work that has both academic implications, but perhaps even more importantly, it has broader societal impact that goes beyond academia. Now, for those of you not yet engaged in research, it is related to the pandemic. I'm hoping that the conference will hopefully highlight the data, ample opportunities to conduct meaningful impactful research. And it is our responsibility, but also privilege as faculty to engage in research that informs business as regulators, policymakers, and academics. Now before I'm going to hand it over to our provost, don't know, Maria, I would like to thank the organizing committee for their work in putting together such an impressive conference. The members of, the members of the committee, our nato, nasa. Fred lovely, meaningfully. Danielle, how it again. And also special things to tell me that the Yan'an Villanova see the chair of the conference for outstanding work in making the event come together. Thank you that the ANA you will all get a chance to hear from Diana, who will follow do Namibia. And it will give us an overview of the conference and the structure of the conference. So welcome. Thank you all and enjoy the conference. Good morning, everyone and thank you, Ronnie. I really appreciate the opportunity to welcome you to today's conference. I really love seeing the collaboration across campus and certainly a big thank you to research cancel. And I thought leadership network and our Center for incubation of Science and Industry. I know that the committee did a lot of hard work is writing, just said, and so I will do a special shout out to Tatiana, going to put a, I know, put in a lot of work. You know, as I thought about today's conference, I just began thinking about scholarship and Bentley. And I think it's really critical for us to think about impact. And this conference today just exemplifies impact. The wide variety of topics. From gender differences to mitigation strategies, to COVID data visualizations to political identity. I mean, just think about wonderful mix of, of research perspectives. And I think what's important is this group of scholars has really thought about the issues that we need to consider right now for years to come. But for right now, and I think that's really important. As you may, as you heard, I can't state today because both yesterday and today Arab board of trustees meetings. I can let you know though, that yesterday at the Academic Affairs Committee meeting, I spoke with the trustees about research. I'm I spoke to them about how critical research is it badly that while we all needed to hyperfocus on teaching this past year, in particular, the need to pivot to remote learning. That we cannot forget that we are a university and research is key for us. As such, I believe we have a responsibility to create and disseminate knowledge from our research. And today's session in the midst of all the craziness that's going on. Just felt just felt right. It felt I felt like it was time and now we're seeing things be changing and I feel like we're back on track. Before I end, I would like to speak about one of our colleagues. I'm going to share my screen for a moment and speak about our friend, Mark Davis. Some of you may know that Mark passed on and on Wednesday. Mark, I'm looking at this picture. It really just makes me smile to look at his picture. Mark was just a wonderful, wonderful scholar and a wonderful human being. I think that we begin to realize how important it is for people to be nice humans. I don't know how else to say that. He was an incredible scholar. He was the me recipient winner in 2017. His research was, was Operations. And more than operations or a marketing services. I mean, he just really did a lot of work and really cared about students. And I can just make this personal and say that when I started the Management Department in December of 2010, he was one of the first people to reach out to me and really, really make me feel welcome. And he always encouraged young scholars. I will admit I wasn't young, but a new scholar with Bentley at the time. And I just wanted I wanted to just say that he's with us today. Great. You know, he he he's he would he would have been here with bells on. He would have really loved this conference. So I just want us to really remember his legacy today. And I just wanted to make sure that I was able to say that of course, I will be sending out an email to the community about him and battle the great things about him. I wish you the very best today. I really do wish that I could stay and be with you, but I can't. So enjoy the day. And I will be signing off in just a few minutes. Maybe done a full launch, the one on the wealth of your OU. Welcome to this wonderful celebration. I'll be insightful and impactful research that is going on at Bentley. Before I talk about the structure of the conference and the agenda for the rest of this morning. I would be remiss if I didn't thank the many people who put countless hours of work behind the scenes to make the confidence possible. Starting with the members of the research down. So learning how Alexander associate Google, search and faculty for their commitment and support. There are many thoughtful ideas about how best to organize the conference. Moving on to B, to C, the bone, the leg blocks of our work is these days, ceilings. The tech support people who are on standby as I speak and making sure that there would be no surprises. As we as we go through the conference, they set up the platform on which we are running badly storing who had to manually all the data on the length and created a very beautiful, elegant, user-friendly website. And then moving on to all the offices that have supported this conference, the evil now. And by the crowd, the polar Zachary could be active engagement of the PhD program in the conference. Piles we encouraging the PhD students to participate. We have three doctoral students presenting today. And then the sessions will be followed by a workshop that's specifically designed for the doctoral students started to 11, 13, which will be facilitated by a Let's come back then. The faulty by some distinguished chair of entrepreneurial settings than our own 97 MBA crowd benthic regulate on BA. And then the chroma all across campus. We have involvement from the center, from the Office of Alumni and Family and Alumni and family. Engagement will be capital and leadership given the data stewards, donor, cure shift, as well as energetic and excited and very engaged. We pulled from our marketing department, blend digital and digital marketing and social media, go through all of them. Thank you very much for your conference happening. And now that the factor of the conference, we have 18 presentations that are scheduled to be Session 6 presentations first session. Each witness that we have about 15 minutes for every Lesson, 10 minutes for the actual presentation, and then about five minutes for questions than answers on a further dispassion. So the three sessions are and I'm very happy that we were able to leave the breakout room. So at the end of the opening session, those of you, hopefully most of you who have upgraded to the latest version of Zoom will be able to choose the fashion that you would be joining. Session 1, which will be fulfilled a facilitated by another. Nasser is on the house on the costs and consequences of the pandemic session to reach out, to facilitate in its own the building irrigation and Lorenzo, powerful we belong. On Session 3 will be chaired by laterally it is on the policy and politics, the campaign. Into your session. Another wonderful feature that the leg is going out of fashion. Because our presentations from currently being fulfilled. Interval, hi everywhere. You will be able, if you're interested, to go from one to three and back to here, different presentations that are of interest to you. And this session will also be avoided the parallel tracks. Before that. Another thing to keep in mind, specifically the PhDs given a bag will be during the doctoral work. So at 1130 is to come back to the meeting room, vegetable rapid outflow of self in that same way. Right now. This is about the structure of the conference. Thank you once again for joining us this morning. For concepts to be a very interesting, engaging, and stimulating event that celebrates the research that is going on. Hopefully all of us, our research ideas of the challenge going forward. This is about our hats, which needless time to get organized. In our respective session, make sure that everything's working with that we can share screens, that layer of fat that the for loop going on down there. So hopefully we all have a wonderful event, one of many such events, Japan. So I click to open all the breakout rooms. So and then they are also sent a link to the conference website in case you don't have a. So feel free to click on that link and you can see the papers in each one of the breakout homes. And feel free to join to the breakout rooms when you're ready and then you can move between rooms as you see fit.
Opening Session - Confronting the Pandemic with Research: Bentley University’s Contribution - February 26, 2021
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